I'd like to give Forsling another year. he showed flashes of great play paired with Murphy.

I wouldn’t mind it either but these are more along the lines of deals I think Bowman would do not me.

How is this realistic? You've lost DeBrincat and Strome next year, have no room for internal defensive improvement, and brought back 95% of the previous years' roster.

I agree this is bad.

AGAIN this isn’t what I would do this is what I expect Stan Bowman to do. He is an idiot and I expect this much from him.

Who would you realistically trade off the team that the Hawks could actually trade? Meaning not Seabrook, Keith or Toews as they all won’t waive their NTC.

Another irrational kumquat.

Who said anything about trading? Panarin ruins our cap situation for the next two years, when we pay him 10M+ and he doesn't fill our biggest hole (defense), that's idiotic. To fill that hole, though, you signed one of the most defensively irresponsible defensemen in the league when we already have Gustafsson, and have Boqvist coming through the system. You signed Perlini to a 2M+ contract, you have Kampf as the 3C, and you put Hayden as a center, which shows me you know very little about this team. Try again.

I don’t think Hayden will be on this team much longer personally, and again these are moves I’d expect from Bowman not myself..... not sure how many more times I’ll need to explain that one to you. I’m gonna post another one with what I personally would try to do with the Hawks. This is what I expect Bowman’s dumbass to do. I think he goes hard at panarin and offers a lot of money to him.

If you think Bowman is this dumb then you really must not have any hope for this team. This team is horrific and looks like something that some meathead at Barstool made, not an NHL general manager. Bowman knows his cap situation, and that he can't spend crazy amounts of money on free agents when he has stars to resign the next year.

Bowman let this team walk into the 2018-2019 season with a roster worse than this and then FINALLY got lucky on 2 trades getting Cags and Strome, Perlini here. Other than that he has been mostly garbage recently

Bowman had a bad offseason, sure. Here's what he's done since then:
- Signed Hagel and Johnson, who are having terrific years in the WHL
- Signed Delia and Dahlstrom to team friendly extensions
- Turned Nick Schmaltz into a young top 6 center and a young top 9 winger with potential
- Turned Brandon Manning and his awful contract into Drake Caggiula
- Traded for Dominik Kubalik, who is projected to make the NHL next year

He knows what needs to be done for this team and he's planning for the future. Have more faith in him.